Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-01-29

Tba Tinted States treasurer Jordan'e -esignatlon is in the hancs of the presl- daot He vill shortly accept the preai- dencv of A new ustIonsl bank m New | York city with Q capital of S3.OJ0OO0
 DALLAS, Tex, Jan. 26-A fire was dis covered thIs morning in the wholesale grocery house of J. l.. Marsalles < Do, one of the largest houses Tn .he south- west. The flames speGd rapidly to The adjoining block, entirely consuming three of the fiDest buIldinge m the city. The total loss on the buildings and stock will aggregate S4O0OOO; insurance S2JO,OOO.
 WAsHrSGros, January 26-Th5 presi- | dent received ;he interstate commerce biII last evening and has referred 1t to the attorney general for examination !. It is not likely ina. the president will snt upon the bill much before the ex- pirstion of the ten days period. A num- Der of applications have already been received for appointment on the com mission provided for in the bill. but the president has not, Hs yet. given that particular subject serious cnnsidera- ton.
 WAsHINGToS, January 26.-1be sen ate committee on pOstoflices and post roads to-day authorized Senator Wilson of Iowa tO report the original postal tel egraph bill Gs submitted for that intro duced by Senator Edmunds. The new bill IS made up of the first eleven sec tioos of that framed by the same com mittee in the last congress. These sec tions provide for the establishment by the postmaster general ofs postal tele- graph system by contracting for the per formAuce of the service with the existing telegraph companies. The schedule of rates is fixed at twenty cents for twenty words where the distance eottrausmissiOn IS one thousand miles, and five cent for | svexy additional two hundred and fifty miles. provided that 20 charge for tweu- | ty words CT less shall be more than fifty | cents. Night rates are fixed at fifteen cents for two thousand miles or under. | Press rates are fixed az not exceeding thirty-five cents for each one hundred words sent at night and seventy five cents during the day. and the same pro ! rata rate for each word in excess of a hundred. Drop copies" are not to ex- ceed twenty five cents per one hundred words Rt night and fi'sy cents during the day.
 NEW YORK, Jsnuarv 2G-COuDsei on behalf of the Silver King Tunnel, Min 1 ing < Milling Co, have OblaIned from Judge Lawrence in the supreme court, an injunction restraining Wm. E. Oliver from interfering with the disposition of or voting upon 472,09i shares of stock of tine Silver King Mining O., and en- l joining the company from transferring stock or receiving gny vote therein from Oliver.
 WAsHSGToS. January 26-A letter of which the following $ copy, wal to- lay sent Co President Cleveland by the ma. iOnL legislative committee ot the Knights of Labor:
 "WAsHIxGroS, D C.. Jan. 26, 1887. MR. PREsIDENT:-Ihis committee, representing the largest body of organ ized workers in the nation, numbering -s they do with their dependents over five millions or nearly one-tenth of the whole population, and in the interests of three-fouTths of the United States, de sire to call your attention tO senate bill No. 1922 anl known as the bIll tO reE1- late Inter-st6te ooiamerce. First, We de sire to say that on one side of the great
 
 large body of producers and consumers who are simple in their habits of life. and their methods of doing business, and poor in purse and from their habits and methods of livIng. they desire tO have the law made simple and plain. so that they may be able tO present theIr claims before the courts of the land with out having to contend with legal tech nIsffza and out Of their ability to pay for the eblcst legal iHlen, i1 lhe land. In this respect the preseot bill Is the acme of legal sub tcrfuge. therefore We desire to call your attention to this and few other Oti C. tionable festuTss of the bill. We regard the following objections as fundsmeUt- sl: First, the commission clause; sec 0nd, the arbitrary power conferred upon tine commission; third, the exclusive iur- isiictIuD given to the federal courts Co hear snd determ ne causes arising under the act; fourth, the acknowledged UI- certainty as to the meaning Oi neariy sll Of the provisions of the measure. In be- half of our constituents we respectfully request you tO veto the bill. We remain yours respectfully.
 RALPH BEAUMONT,
 Signed: JOIN ]. MCCARTNEY.
 JAMES CAMPBELL.
 Nation legislative committee of the Knights of Labor"
 SAS FRANCIsCO, January 2G-The Chronicles Fl PssO special says: Last nigh, as William Dalton Oi Tsygb. vas comluR across the bridge from the Mex icsn side, he was accosted by Mexican guard who asked Dalton where hs was gong and added he could not cross the bridge. This was said in spanish. and Dalton not understanding IL and think ing be was dIsCb, yIDg no laws. started across ihe bridge. when he w8s shot by the guard m the back, ihe ball pene- tEating the abdomen with fatal effect. Dalton was carried into Mexican dun geOn Ht Paso del Norts where he now lies on the bare floor and soaked ID blood. No blanket covers him and no